Cassandra Peterson, Paul Reubens, Toni Basil
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Toni Basil - Mickey - 1982
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Musician David Byrne, founding member and principal songwriter of the American New Wave band Talking Heads, photographed in 1987 with singer-songwriter choreographer Toni Basil. (Photo by Jack Mitchell/Getty Images)
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L-R: Toni Basil, Martha Davis (The Motels), Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane) and Cyndi Lauper
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𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨, 𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐧,
𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐚𝐧
𝐖𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐚
𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐦𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞
𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐈 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐰 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐧...
Davy Jones and Toni Basil in the number Daddy’s Song from The Monkee’s movie Head (Columbia Pictures, director: Bob Rafelson, 1968). Toni choreographed this dance sequence and worked with Davy for two weeks, with the number itself, due to the costume changes required and the intricate, very precise editing, taking three days to film. Davy commented at the time in an article for 16 magazine: “Those two weeks with Toni were real educational, let me tell you! I found out that it requires more effort to get into perfect physical shape to do a dance routine than it does for a jockey to get into shape to ride in races! Mr. Fred Astaire has my profound respect.” The costumes for this sequence were designed by Gene Ashman with input from Jones, and they took one week to create. Though Head was poorly received and considered too avant garde when it was released (in a harshly scathing review, Renata Adler of The New York Times wrote: “Head might be a film to see if you have been smoking grass, or if you like to scream at the Monkees, or if you are interested in what interests drifting heads and hysterical high-school girls”), the film has been re-evaluated in subsequent decades and is now considered a satirical masterpiece and ahead of its time, with Davy’s performance in Daddy’s Song regarded as a particularly memorable and deftly crafted stand-out moment. The song itself was written by Harry Nilsson, with other tunes in the movie written by the likes of Carole King, actor Jack Nicholson (who was a friend and frequent collaborator with director Bob Rafelson), and Monkees members Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork (Nicholson, it should be noted, also co-produced the film and co-wrote the screenplay). The soundtrack was named number 25 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of “The 25 Greatest Soundtracks of All Time” in 2013.
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Bruce Conner (in tub), Toni Basil, Teri Garr, and Ann Marshall, 1965 photographed by Dennis Hopper.
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Toni Basil, Martha Davis (The Motels), Grace Slick (Starship) and Cyndi Lauper. 2nd American Video Awards, Los Angeles, CA. 1984.
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David Byrne and Toni Basil
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Toni Basil, Casey Kasem and LaToya Jackson at the American Video Association's 2nd Annual American Video Awards nominations announcements at Kathy Gallagher's Restaurant in West Hollywood on March 5, 1984.
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